3Things You Need To Know: Don’t Answer Those Scam Texts.

IT’s the seasons for scam text messages from shippers that saying packages can’t be delivered so please don’t answer those messages. Texas Women Arrested at Dulles airport for smuggling weed onto a plane. It is Giving Tuesday today so give to those who need.    

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the city that changes the world. Peers Rose with
three things you need to know? Are your Tuesday, Rose?
Do you got for us?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
So, since it's the holidays and everyone is shopping online
Black Friday all that stuff, it is the season also
for smishing, which is fishing through text messages, essentially the scam.
I know, they give it a weird name, so you
can expect more fake text messages that claim to be
from shippers that are scams. I already got one of

(00:30):
these last week saying it was from the post office.
Oh you have a package, they cannot be delivered. Yeah,
it's not real. Obviously it's phony. Please do not click
on any links. Do not call any phone numbers. The
shipping agency also said it will not send a link
in text.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Message about package.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
So the best advice you could do, like I said,
don't click on anything.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
If you do question whether.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
It's legitimate or not, go to the actual like shipper
website tracking information.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Do that, but don't click on those. You can report.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Those, like if it's saying that it's from the post Office,
from the USPS, you can text that to them so
they know, and then you could also report it to
the FTC or the FBI, So Texas woman has been
arrested at Dulles International Airport for allegedly trying to smuggle
seventy one pounds of marijuana.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Into another country. You know you gotta say allegedly.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
So the woman was arrested after US Customs, Border and
Protection found.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Sixty vacuum packed.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Vacuum sealed bags in marijuana in her luggage, again allegedly.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
The street value of the drugs were estimated at over
three hundred thousand dollars and investigator said it might be
even worth more in Europe and Africa.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
And the woman was charged with possession with.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Intent to distribute, transporting a controlled substance, and conspiracy. And
it is Giving Tuesday, a day that encourages people to.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Give back in whatever way they can.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
And there's a local charity that I want to spotlight
because it is amazing and it benefits kids with cancer.
We've actually talked about it before. It's called for Love
and Buttercup. It's a nonprofit book drive for kids with cancer.
And so it was started by twenty year old Emily Batnagar.
She's from Gaithersburg, Maryland. She started it when she was seventeen, Wow,

(02:23):
which is incredible. She started after her father was diagnosed
with stage four thyroid cancer, and since twenty nineteen, she's
donated over twenty thousand books to children undergoing cancer treatments.
It's incredible. She's been featured on Good Morning America Today, Forbes,
the Washington Post like she the work she's doing is incredible,
and her goal is to reach five thousand books for

(02:45):
the holidays, which I think is very attainable.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
I think we can all help out if you want
to donate.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I have her information and her Amazon wishless at ymsradio
dot com.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I'm Rose. Those are the three things you need to
know for today. Thank you, Ros. You're welcome intern John
in your morning show an iHeartRadio